anti-aircraft

Because Lockheed had developed the F-117, and it flew into the Baghdad anti-aircraft means and supposedly never got even a single scratch.

So, with this assumption, in Baghdad Saddam had spent a huge bundle on anti-aircraft means -- radars, guns, and missiles.

Just the other day one had 4 anti-aircraft missiles fired at it in Syria and was just fine.

That's been the case since militaries began testing anti-aircraft weaponry with unmanned aircraft, around World War II.

Soviet Union had a whole branch of military dedicated to anti-aircraft warfare, meant to stop such things.

It would just shoot a missile from 10km height - unreachable height for helicopter and for many anti-aircraft missiles.

Stinger scenario - one man with a shoulder launched anti-aircraft weapon could take down a jet liner.

Pretty much the same as what happens when an anti-aircraft weapon is used against an ordinary aircraft.

Radar sites are one of the first targets in the process of establishing air superiority because they direct anti-aircraft defenses.

As a point of clarification it was an Anti-Aircraft Gun [1] which is not unprecedented.

It's really more a case of guidance systems for early anti-aircraft missiles were fairly unreliable so nuclear warheads were tried because A.

I live next to Clapham Common [0], where there are still mounds anti-aircraft guns were mounted on [1].

Well for one thing the armchair airwar blog...er..."experts" keep pretending that with modern, portable anti-aircraft systems the A-10 is a survivable platform long term.

However realistically it is hard to believe a rag tag group of "terrorists" could operate a modern anti-aircraft system such as the Buk missile system.

Hopefully this will turn out to be true, and something detrimental to the NK regime, and not one of the many false, ridiculous stories about North Korea we've been hearing over the past few years -- everything from "he was fed to dogs" to "prisoners shot with anti-aircraft missiles!".

Anti-aircraft shells were usually fused to explode at a given altitude.